hey, it was an epox issue man
(when people are scared to even plug in a tnt2 agp in worry of frying something, it truly shows epox poorly designed that model of motherboard).
It was a full month and a half before i even joined rage3d , which was when i got my radeon...
actually it was 4:00 am saskatoon, saskatchewan, Canada time... now it's 1:37pm. i've gotten some sleep and can now think inteligently gain...
yeah, u're right, i was way off base... i'll just delete the above 2-3 posts
update: yep, i removed 2 unescesary above posts... as they say, they're history!
btw: i'm still used to the edit button bar being at the top of the message, i'll get used to it eventually...